ABSTRACT

Change is an interesting notion. It is all around us, within us, and it is difficult if not impossible to escape from it. Change is perpetual. We might like to think we have at some time a period of stability but change carries on none the less. Just by living we experience change, if only because we grow older. Change can be minor, low key and easily handled. It can however be substantial, very significant and extremely difficult to cope with. Change may be started by others and imposed upon us, or we may initiate it and carry it through ourselves. At one level, it is simple. Change is simply a matter of learning to do things differently. But in reality it is extremely complex, especially if the change is significant.